Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said Waldwick Police Officer Christopher Goodell, 32, was operating radar to look for speeders, on Route 17 at Begen Avenue when the tractor-trailer driven by Ryon Cumberbatch of Brookyln veered into the shoulder and struck his unmarked Chevrolet Impala parked on the shoulder that did not have its emergency lights blinking.

The truck, still with its hazard lights blinking, had come to a stop on a grassy strip between the road shoulder and a raised backyard. Its cab was at a 90-degree angle from the rest of the truck and had smashed into a white picket fence and stone wall. Fencing and rocks were strewn along the highway. Cumberbatch was hauling a trailer half-full with produce, the prosecutor said, and was not injured.

Goodell is the second north Jersey police officer to lose his life this week. "Police officers face dangers every single day. We saw what happened in Jersey City," Molinelli said, recalling "We saw what happened to a Bergen County police officer a couple of months ago. Danger faces these police officers at any moment."